"Life After Tef" is a project I've been working on since the death of my companion of 14 years, Teffra. After she died I began collecting and painting the dead sticks from the ground around the pine trees she used to sit under. For me painting these sticks is a very spiritual and emotional journey towards healing.

Life After Tef is grief art. It is the exploration of the idea that beauty and color can be manifested from death and pain. It is also an exploration of what life after death really means.

Painting these sticks is a representation of bringing life back to something that was once dead. Adding color to someplace where there otherwise would not be.